Full Idea
A totalitarian party ensures that members find in that particular party all the satisfactions that they formerly found in a multiplicity of organisations. They break the threads that bind them to extraneous cultural organisms.
Gist of Idea
Totalitarian parties cut their members off from other cultural organisations
Source
Antonio Gramsci (Selections from Prison Notebooks [1971], 2 'Organisation')
Book Reference
Gramsci,Antonio: 'Selections from Prison Notebooks', ed/tr. Hoare,Q./Nowell Smith,G [Lawrence and Wishart 1978], p.265
A Reaction
British parties traditionally had a 'club house', where you could do most of your socialising. Presumably Nazis left the church, and various interest groups.